Various :: The Contemporary Solo Flute
American Composers Alliance presents The Contemporary Solo Flute: Eleven Pieces for Flute Alone, compiled and edited by James J. Pellerite.
Works include:
- Elegy by James Meyer
- Gesang Des Abends by Willy Correa de Oliveira
- Improviso by Osvaldo Lacerda
- Fantasie by Ma Shui-Long
- Encounter by Marilyn Bliss
- Nocturnes and Meditations by David Loeb
- Mutations for Flute by Harry T. Bulow
- Alaap and Kirtan by John Mayer
- Yesod by Elbert Lechtman
- A Chant to Pele by George Barati
- Cadenza for Alto Flute Solo by Paul Stenberg
These works for the advanced solo flutist, collected together by James J. Pellerite, were originally presented in two volumes and published by JP Zālo in 1979. They are now presented together in this 2022, single volume edition of The Contemporary Solo Flute.
These eleven pieces, composed in a relatively narrow band of time (1973-1985), nonetheless demonstrate a wide range of 20th Century flute and compositional techniques.
Extended techniques are present (percussive effects, multiphonics, microintervals, and similar), but are usually used for timbral or rhythmic enhancement rather than as motive ideas. The majority of the works adhere to idiomatic fingering and embouchure technique, and all of the works are attractively, musically suited for the flute and its musical tendencies.
Contents
- Elegy by James Meyer
- Gesang Des Abends by Willy Correa de Oliveira
- Improviso by Osvaldo Lacerda
- Fantasie by Ma Shui-Long
- Encounter by Marilyn Bliss
- Nocturnes and Meditations by David Loeb
- Mutations for Flute by Harry T. Bulow
- Alaap and Kirtan by John Mayer
- Yesod by Elbert Lechtman
- A Chant to Pele by George Barati
- Cadenza for Alto Flute Solo by Paul Stenberg
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